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RETRACTED: Cosmetic applied based face recognition for biometric passport

Ziaul Haque Choudhury (Department of Information Technology, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India)
M. Munir Ahamed Rabbani (Department of Mathematics, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India)

International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems

ISSN: 2049-6427

Article publication date: 1 August 2019

Issue publication date: 14 January 2020

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This article was retracted on 2 Aug 2024.

Retraction notice

The publishers of International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems wish to retract the article Choudhury, Z.H. and Rabbani, M.M.A. (2020), “Cosmetic applied based face recognition for biometric passport”, International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJIUS-02-2019-0016

An internal investigation into a series of submissions has uncovered evidence that the peer review process was compromised. As a result of these concerns, the findings of the article cannot be relied upon. This decision has been taken in accordance with Emerald’s publishing ethics and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The authors of this article would like to note that they do not agree with the content of this notice. The publishers of the journal sincerely apologize to the readers.

Abstract

Purpose

Nowadays, the use of forged e-passport is increasing, which is threatening national security. It is important to improve the national security against international crime or terrorism. There is a weak verification process caused by lack of identification processes such as a physical check, biometric check and electronic check. The e-passport can prevent the passport cloning or forging resulting from the illegal immigration. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper focuses on face recognition to improve the biometric authentication for an e-passport, and it also introduces facial permanent mark detection from the makeup or cosmetic-applied faces, twins and similar faces. An algorithm is proposed to detect the cosmetic-applied facial permanent marks such as mole, freckle, birthmark and pockmark. Active Shape Model into Active Appearance Model using Principal Component Analysis is applied to detect the facial landmarks. Facial permanent marks are detected by applying the Canny edge detector and Gradient Field Histogram of Oriented Gradient.

Findings

This paper demonstrated an algorithm and proposed facial marks detection from cosmetic or makeup-applied faces for a secure biometric passport in the field of personal identification for national security. It also presented to detect and identify identical twins and similar faces. This paper presented facial marks detection from the cosmetic-applied face, which can be mixed with traditional methods. However, the use of the proposed technique faced some challenges due to the use of cosmetic. The combinations of the algorithm for facial mark recognition matching with classical methods were able to attain lower errors in this proposed experiment.

Originality/value

The proposed method will enhance the national security and it will improve the biometric authentication for the e-passport. The proposed algorithm is capable of identifying facial marks from cosmetic-applied faces accurately, with less false positives. The proposed technique shows the best results.

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Citation

Choudhury, Z.H. and Rabbani, M.M.A. (2020), "RETRACTED: Cosmetic applied based face recognition for biometric passport", International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJIUS-02-2019-0016

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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